1. Winemaking

Winter winemaking is essential on the night of the Winter Solstice, because there is a saying in the ancient city of Suzhou: "If you don't drink winter wine during the winter solstice, it will freeze overnight." Winter wine is brewed only once a year and is a rice wine brewed with osmanthus flowers. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, the wines of the ancients were the prototypes of rice wine and rice wine. The sweet-scented osmanthus winter wine made in Suzhou, Jiangnan Province is the ancient and authentic wine taste that has been preserved to this day by the Chinese people. Looking through the classics, Guihuadong winemaking is also called "three white wines", which is "made by soaking white glutinous rice in clear spring water and making koji from white flour".

2. Wontons

The ancients said that the sky is round and the earth is round. The square wonton skin represents the earth, and the stuffing wrapped in the middle is the weather. The "chaotic world" blends into each other. People eat "wontons" during the Winter Solstice, which means eating the "chaotic world" and returning to a peaceful world.

3. Braised vegetables

During the Winter Solstice, in addition to drinking winter wine, another custom of Suzhou people is to eat braised vegetables. In the past, there was a popular saying among the people: "If you have a copper coin, you can eat it all night, but if you don't have a copper coin, you can freeze it all night." Now of course, we don’t freeze it overnight, and we don’t really eat it overnight, but it is still a custom for many Suzhou people to buy some ready-made braised vegetables and have a hearty reunion dinner at home. Therefore, all braised vegetable restaurants in Sioux City will have their best business in the day or two before the Winter Solstice Festival.

4. Winter Solstice dumplings

Suzhou people also have the term "Winter Solstice dumplings". Winter Solstice dumplings are also called "rice nest dumplings". On the night before the winter solstice, they grind flour into dough. They use minced meat, vegetables and fruits, bean paste and shredded radish as stuffings, offer sacrifices to each other and give them to each other. Nowadays, there is still the custom of eating dumplings during the winter solstice in rural areas of Wudi.

5. Mutton

"Take nourishment in the winter solstice, kill tigers in the spring" is a folk saying widely spread in Wudi. Suzhou people also start to take supplements from the winter solstice, which also forms the peak of eating mutton after autumn. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mutton and dog meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and complement. Suzhou people also start to take supplements from the winter solstice, and what they eat is the famous Wuzhong Bookstore mutton.